Lichen biodiversity and evolutionary research subunit is studying diversity, evolution and diversification of lichens and lichenicolous fungi. Our integrative study is using methods of classical taxonomy, phylogenetics, and genomics.
The main topics we are focused on:
- Discovering and describing new species in the Acarosporaceae family
- Lichen systematatics and phylogeny of species worldwide
- Evolution, diversity and hybridization of the lichen family Acarosporaceae (Ascomycota) in Southwest Regions of North America
- Lichen systematics and phylogeny of Acarosporaceae in Europe, South America, Asia, and Africa
- Taxonomy and ecology of lichenicolous fungi in Europe and USA